"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."
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"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.“
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"This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher."
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"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."
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"Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to."
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"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."
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